Accuracy of serum and saliva assays for identification of adverse food reaction in dogs

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Food Reaction

scholarly journals DNA and Protein Analyses to Confirm the Absence of Cross-Contamination and Support the Clinical Reliability of Extensively Hydrolysed Diets for Adverse Food Reaction-Pets

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Isabelle Lesponne ◽  
Jérôme Naar ◽  
Sébastien Planchon ◽  
Tommaso Serchi ◽  
Mauricio Montano
Keyword(s):  
Cross Contamination ◽  
Adverse Food Reaction

IDENTIFYING AND MANAGING AN ADVERSE FOOD REACTION IN A POLAR BEAR (URSUS MARITIMUS) BY AN ELIMINATION DIET TRIAL

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-419
Author(s):  
Sara Monson ◽  
Larry J. Minter ◽  
Marissa Krouse ◽  
Ryan S. De Voe
Keyword(s):  
Polar Bear ◽  
Ursus Maritimus ◽  
Elimination Diet ◽  
Adverse Food Reaction

scholarly journals Clinical efficacy of nutraceutical diet for cats with clinical signs of cutaneus adverse food reaction (CAFR)

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Mazzeranghi ◽  
C. Zanotti ◽  
A. Di Cerbo ◽  
J.P. Verstegen ◽  
R. Cocco ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Skin Lesions ◽  
Food Allergies ◽  
Toxic Compounds ◽  
Adverse Food Reaction ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Mean ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Lesion Severity

Abstract Food allergies and food intolerances are clinically difficult to discriminate. Most often, along with cutaneous adverse food reactions or CAFR, they are classified as adverse food reactions, whose causes are numerous, including toxic compounds. Eighteen indoor-housed domestic cats with evident clinical symptoms related to CAFR (drooling, back and neck intense itching, neck eczema, chronic conjunctivitis and stomatitis) involving skin lesions were studied. Cytological evaluations of ear, skin and gingival swabs revealed an increased turnover of keratinocytes while the oxytetracycline ELISA determination showed an unexpected high amount of oxytetracycline in all cats at the first visit. All cats were then randomly assigned to receive a standard (SD group) or a nutraceutical diet (ND group) for 60 days. In the ND group a significant reduction of the mean serum concentration of oxytetracycline, pruritus intensity and skin lesion severity (**p<0.01, ***p<0.001, and ***p<0.001, respectively) was observed after 60 days, and associated with a significant improvement in the clinical picture. Although a direct correlation between oxytetracycline presence within cat sera and CAFR-related symptoms has never been described, this study highlights the benefit of a specific nutraceutical diet supplementation in improving clinical symptoms and skin lesions in cats with CARF.

scholarly journals Successful Treatment of a Multi-Drug-Resistant Severely Pruritic Hypersensitivity Dermatitis in a Cat

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Urszula Rzeszutek
Keyword(s):  
Essential Fatty Acids ◽  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Retroviral Infection ◽  
First Case ◽  
Flea Allergy Dermatitis ◽  
Adverse Food Reaction ◽  
Serology Test ◽  
Flea Allergy

A 3-year-old neutered female domestic shorthair cat was presented with a severely pruritic dermatitis. After exclusion of flea allergy dermatitis, ectoparasite infestation, retroviral infection, neoplasia, and cutaneous adverse food reaction, a diagnosis of nonflea, nonfood hypersensitivity dermatitis (NFNFHD) was made. The resolution of complicating bacterial infection and yeast overgrowth did not improve the animal’s condition. Numerous antipruritic treatment modalities used during the investigation proved unsuccessful, including anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive prednisolone doses, oclacitinib, antihistamines, ciclosporin A, and supplementation with essential fatty acids. Allergen-specific serology test results were negative. Treatment with oral dexamethasone allowed a complete resolution of clinical signs. The cat has been successfully maintained in remission for over 12 months. To the author’s knowledge, this is the first case report of a cat with multi-drug-resistant NFNFHD treated successfully with dexamethasone.

Double-Blind Evaluation of Two Commercial Hypoallergenic Diets in Cats with Adverse Food Reactions

2002 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Leistra ◽  
T Willemse
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Signs ◽  
Elimination Diet ◽  
Protein Source ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Commercial Diets ◽  
Adverse Food Reaction ◽  
Dietary Components ◽  
Blind Manner ◽  
Rice Diet

The aim of this study was to evaluate two commercially available selected-protein-source diets as maintenance diets in cats with dermatological manifestations of adverse food reactions. Twenty cats with a confirmed adverse food reaction were tested in a double-blind manner. An adverse food reaction was diagnosed when, after recovery with a home-cooked elimination diet, the signs relapsed after a challenge with their previous dietary components, and re-disappeared on a second elimination diet period. Hereafter the cats were blind and randomly challenged with two commercial hypoallergenic diets. Relapse of the clinical signs was seen in eight cats (40%) on a lamb and rice diet and in 13 cats (65%) on a chicken and rice diet ( P>0.05). Neither one of the commercial diets was as effective in controlling the skin problems as the home-cooked elimination diet. The study confirms that commercial hypoallergenic diets are adequate for maintenance.

Adverse Food Reactions

1995 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 188-189
Author(s):  
Harris Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Food Allergy ◽  
Immune System ◽  
Food Additives ◽  
Food Additive ◽  
Food Intolerance ◽  
Host Immune System ◽  
Metabolic Dysfunction ◽  
Lactase Deficiency ◽  
Adverse Food Reaction ◽  
Physiologic Effect

Adverse food reaction is the broad descriptive term given to clinically abnormal responses that occur after the ingestion of food or food additives. These responses can be divided into those that do not involve the immune system (food intolerance) and those that are mediated by the immune system (food allergy or hypersensitivity). There are many causes of food intolerance, including the presence of toxic contaminants such as histamine in scombroid fish; the pharmacologic properties of the food, as with tyramine in cheese; a metabolic dysfunction in the patient, such as lactase deficiency; and idiosyncratic responses. The term food allergy is used to describe responses mediated by the host immune system, independent of any physiologic effect of the food or food additive.

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